About Benjamin Chemla

Benjamin Chemla has been building cohesive teams and companies from the ground up and scaling them fast across Europe and the US for 12+ years. He is a french serial entrepreneur and business angel "AMF certified" with a background in business law. Ben launched on-demand delivery platform Stuart right when the gig economy began its boom – so navigating delicate regulatory environments is nothing new to him. The company raised €22M pre-launch and was acquired by La Poste. It now operates in 120+ cities with over 750 employees. At Shares.io, Ben is again creating a completely new community-based service that transforms the way people interact and live – and bringing together a bold team that knows how to keep pushing forward to bring a new vision to life. The company has raised $90m with great investors such as Valar Ventures (Peter Thiel), Singular, Global Founders Capital and Red Sea Ventures. Benjamin Chemla co-founded Citycake, a Paris-based online delivery business, with Ralph Guyot-Jeannin, an ESCP Business School graduate. In 2013, the startup succeeded in raising funds from a network of business angels, Investessor, to expand its team and strengthen its capital. In 2014, the startup was bought by Resto-In and Chemla was appointed to manage Resto-In operations in France and Belgium. In January 2015, Chemla and Clément Benoît launched Stuart, now the leading European last-mile B2B delivery platform.Four months later, the startup raised 22 million euros and started to hire people in 3 countries. In April 2021, Chemla partnered with Harjas Singh and François Ruty to create Shares, an online investment platform. In August 2021, Shares raised a $10 million seed round before officially launching its product. They raised $40 million dollars in Series A, and the same amount in Series B within just a few months. Shares launched in the UK during summer 2022, then entered the French market in July 2023.